Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

Also I have an interest in spirituality and it opens-up so many different areas of Indian life.

It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.""Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-

Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If ‘oneself’ gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive.

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

Enough about me. What do you think about me?

The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.

I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse to understand that it is in reality a good thing.